Publications

China's Space Odessey

Feature article in The Global Analyst of July, 2021, a flagship global business magazine of Hyderabad-based Media-Five Publications Pvt. Ltd., India, of which I am on the Advisory Board.

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China: No longer the Global Growth Engine?

Feature article in The Global Analyst of June, 2021, a flagship global business magazine of Hyderabad-based Media-Five Publications Pvt. Ltd., India, of which I am on the Advisory Board.

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A Bloomberg Research report of 6 July 2021 warns that, depending on various imponderables, China may never be able to overtake the United States as the world's largest economy. The report acknowledges that as China's population is four times the United States while its productivity is about a fifth, China would only have to increase its productivity by more than 25% over a period to claim the top slot. However, "...another path is possible. Stalled reforms, fraying global ties, shrinking workforce and financial crisis could keep China indefinitely in second place."

New Concert of Powers

Op-ed dated 20 April, 2021 in World Geostrategic Insights, an international non-profit geostrategic platform based in Rome. The article also appears in Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.

China's Digital Currency

My contribution entitled China's Digital Currency: What This Could Mean for Foreign Companies featured in The Global Analyst of May, 2021, a flagship global business magazine of Hyderabad-based Media-Five Publications Pvt. Ltd., India, of which I am on the Advisory Board.

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Following is a Chinese translation. Download 中国的数字货币

A live TV panel discussion on CNN News 18 of India of 26 May, 2021 shows the degree of obfuscation on China's digital currency, driven by the popular "China Threat" rhetoric. (The topic starts from time counter 10:30 onwards.)

Of interest is Professor Edward Lai of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's brief on RMB internationalization, heralding his coming book One Currency, Two Markets: China's Attempt to Internationalize the Renminbi    

 

Waning US must overcome fear of China’s inevitable rise to the top

Op-ed in South China Morning Post of 20 May, 2021

Admiral Zheng He may have explored the New World way before Christopher Columbus

Admiral Zheng He's last daring global voyage (from 1431) was traced by Chinese historian and author Dr Sheng-Wei Wang. Meticulously studying ancient Chinese texts, ocean current flows and various archaeological finds, she posits that the Admiral may have reached Cape Breton Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, before making his way on small river boats to what is now the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in the central Mississippi Valley.

If so, the Admiral would have discovered the New World some six decades ahead of Christopher Columbus (1492). 

Dr. Wang's findings are laid out in her fascinating scholarly work "The Last Journey of the San Bao Eunuch Admiral Zheng He".  She invited me for a Book Review, which is appended below. 

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Would a US-led Carbon Tax, instead of partnership, spur China's progress under the Paris Agreement?

Op-ed dated 18 April, 2021 in World Geostrategic Insights, an international non-profit geostrategic platform based in Rome. 

How Will We (U.S.) Win the Second Cold War?

A riposte published on 17 April, 2021 in World Strategic Insights, an international non-profit geostrategic platform based in Rome. 

What China's Low Growth Means for the World - China's game-changing Five Year Plan (2021-25)

The above is my feature article in The Global Analyst of April, 2021, a flagship global business magazine of Hyderabad-based Media-Five Publications Pvt. Ltd., India, of which I am on the Advisory Board. The subtitle is more to the point of what this piece is about:

"What’s behind China’s Five-Year Plan (2021-25) as GDP growth slows? In a world turned upside down by the pandemic with Great Power rivalries, the 14th Five-Year Plan is a bold blueprint of how Beijing is getting prepared to realize her long-cherished China Dream of national renaissance, against all odds."

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How the US can offer a realistic response to the "China challenge"

Op-ed in the South China Morning Post of 26 February, 2021.

Along similar lines, Ryan Hass's Op-ed China Is Not Ten Feet Tall: How Alarmism Undermines American Strategy of 3 March, 2021 in Foreign Affairs concludes as follows:

"The more the United States can restore confidence that it is the country best prepared in the world to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century, the better it will be able to focus attention where it matters most: not on slowing China down but on strengthening itself. To compete effectively with China, Washington will need to focus on bolstering the United States’ domestic dynamism, international prestige, and unmatched global network of alliances and partnerships. These are the real keys to the United States’ strength, and China cannot take them away."